This book tells the story of four daughters born to a father who is serving on a Battleship in World War II and a mother who easily falls into emotional attachments to help her through the hard times. Post war Britain is the backdrop for this novel, which is based on a characters and events that really happened, and which is full of surprises, realism, danger and hardship. Through it all, Sadie finds she has a guardian Angel to teach her the way to go, and she finds herself overcoming all the pain and difficulties to find the meaning of love.